Most interesting thing I learned about myself in the last decade (thanks to that one post by the Facebook guy): I have aphantasia, which explains like 90% of my thinking.
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I try to think about this sometimes but very quickly lose track with what I am or am not doing under the banner of “visualization” I mean it’s not literally like seeing of course and then train of thought loses the plot
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Most people can literally visualize
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I mean but it can’t be JUST like seeing , that’s why it’s the “minds eye”
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Ugh here I go again
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Yep, apparently it pretty much is
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Do you mean to tell me that most people can literally have at will the brain state that is otherwise produced involuntarily by seeing (presumably) real objects out in the world ?
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timestamp!
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I still can literally hardly belive this 🤯🤯🤯
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wait i don't believe this is what people mean when they say they can visualize. i think there are two different visual spaces, the "actual" visual field and the "mind's eye," and visualization refers to the latter. i think i ran a poll about this
some people claim to be able to superimpose arbitrary images onto the "actual" visual field but afaict this is a much rarer ability
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can't find a poll but short discussion here
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there are (at least) two different “spaces” at play i think. psychedelic visuals are happening in my “actual visual field.” the rest of the time when i say i’m visualizing something it’s in my “mind’s eye.” like the diff between hallucinating vs. remembering a song twitter.com/_holyweather/s…
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